Lesson plan: Weather

Our plan for today!

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Subject: Weather

''Dear parents & children, 

this lesson fun plan is mostly based on videos and virtual learning. I hope you will like it!''

Key terms: weather, sunny, cloudy, snowy, windy, rainy

Learning objectives: Children will be able to discriminate the weather conditions using adjectives and pictures.

Materials & preparation: computer/tablet, jar, water, shaving foam, blue food coloring, papers and markers for the flashcards

➤ Introduction

Let’s see the weather flashcards together and name the different conditions. You can also make you own weather flashcards like I did: sunny, windy,cloudy, rainy, snowy.

↪Note: Flashcards I use mostly to introduce the subject and to test the new knowledge. Intoduce the different weather conditions to your children and encourage them to repeat. After, point at each of them one by one and check what they remember.

➤ Time to sing
Let’s sing together ‘What is the weather like?’. In this link you can find a very nice song →Weather song. You can use hand gestures for the weather words:

sunny: slowly spread your arms out

rainy: wiggle your fingers downwards like rain

windy: gesture wind blowing out of your mouth

cloudy: make cloudy shapes with your hands

snowy: wiggle your fingers downwards like snow and shiver

➤ Look outside

Can you look outside the window and tell me what is the weather like? Go go and see! Now choose from the flashcards which are suitable for the day and describe it.

➤ Yoga

Time for some yoga poses according to the subject. Come with me and follow the link->Yoga class 🙆

➤ Little scientists
Let’s make an experiment and put the rain in a jar. Follow up!

➤ Online game

This is a game you are going to love. The kids have to dress up an animal of their choice according to the weather. Enjoy! ➙dress_for_the_weather

SEE YOU SOON!

Easter fun plan activities!

“Dear parents & children,
I hope you are fine and healthy. Easter has come and I have gathered some great activities for you. Enjoy!”

Key terms: Easter, bunny, egg, chocolate, hunting, basket, chicks

Learning objectives: Get familiar with the words Easter, bunny, eggs, enter the Easter mood and have fun playing.

Materials & preparation: plastic eggs, chocolate eggs, basket (optional), white cardboard, pink paper, scissors, glue, orange and green paper, salt, water, flour, bowl, acrylic paints, glitter (optional), flowers & leaves, eggshells, plastic hammer/spoon



➤ Introduction
In this video Captain English is looking for the chocolate easter eggs, can you find them? This way yourchildren will get familiar with the words Easter, bunny, chocolate eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54nDbehiLr0

➤ Craft time
It’s time to become the easter bunny! Make a simple and cute headband with the rabbit’s ears and hop around the house. You need a piece of long white cardboard or put together two pieces to make the headband in the perimeter of the child’s head. Use some pink paper for the inside of the ears or color it with pink and stick them on the headband. You ’re ready bunnies!

➤ Action game
Now that you are the easter bunnies you can go for some egg hunting. On the condition that you have some plastic or chocolate eggs, hide them around the house, give a basket to your children and let them go hunting. You can use an egg carton case for a basket with ribbons for handles.
🐰Note: If you have plastic eggs you can hide inside only some of the chocolate eggs as a reward for your children ;-) Another option is to hide different items in the plastic eggs to intensify the idea of the treasure. And if you have none of them, make the sensory activity first so you have easter eggs (check below).

➤ Salt dough
This time we are making salt dough eggs. You will need: * ½ cup of salt * 1 cup of flour * ½ cup of water. Mix the flour and the salt in a bowl and gradually add the water. The dough is ready to get shape. Use something round to cut eggs if you don’t have oval cutter. Make a hole on top if you want to use them as ornaments to decorate your house and hang them. Bake them in a preheated oven at 160 C’ degrees for 20-30 minutes, depended on the thickness, keep an eye on them. After they have cooled down, you can paint them with acrylics, make patterns and add some glitter.
Alternatively, you can split the dough in parts, color them with food coloring before baking, create colorful easter eggs and then put them in the oven.

➤ Bunny out of flowers
This little spring bunny is gonna bring you so much joy. It is necessary to have already collected a few flowers and leaves. This is my floral easter bunny. Are you ready to do yours?

➤ Arts & Crafts

Follow the link to make together cute chicks with a paper roll!🐥 You need: a paper roll, yellow paint, a white A4 paper, black, pink, orange markers and a toothpick.

Note: I made the yellow paint myself because I didn’t have. If you are in the same position->Mix 1 part of flour with 1 part of water and enough yellow food coloring drops. I used 2 tbsp of flour/2 tbsp of water/4 color drops-you don’t need much.

➤ Crack an egg

All these Easter days you are surely doing some baking with eggs. Save the eggshells for this math activity. Write the numbers 0-10 on the halfs  and place them on a tray or towel. Write the numbers also on paper pieces folded so they are not visible. Put the paper pieces in a cup and the kids will pick one at the time like lottery. Identify the number, match it with the correct eggshell and crack it with a toy hammer or a spoon. 

                                                         

''Happy Easter everyone! Have a great time with family and friends at home!''

SM

Lesson plan: Farm animals

Our plan for today!

Subject: Farm animals

Key terms: farm, animals, horse, duck, chicken, pig, cow, dog, sheep

Materials & preparation: computer, white papers, markers, farm animals figurines, food supplies for the diy farm

Learning objectives: Have fun with the farm animals, learn their names, identify them and make their sounds.

➤Flashcards

You can print or you can make your own flashcards easily like I did. This time we are going to learn about the pig, the horse, the duck, the chicken, the cow, the dog and the sheep. Of course there are more farm animals but we can't include them at once. Ask your children what animal are they and introduce them all.

➤Animal sounds

Show to your children one by one the animal cards in order to answer back with the sound they make. Kids love to replicate the voices of the animals. 

The cow makes MOO!

The dog makes Woof!

The sheep makes Baaa!

The chicken makes Cluck!

The horse makes Neigh!

The duck makes Quack!

The pig makes Oink!

➤Matching game
You will need the flashcards and your animal figurines for this fast and simple game. They have to pick an animal, name it and place on the right card.

➤ Which animal is this?

A funny game in the darkness where the children have to identify the animals by their shadow. Use a torch to create the shadow of each animal but make sure that they can not see the figurine.

➤ Sensory DIY farm

Make your farm with any materials you have. Use the animals figurines, bricks, lentils, corn, flour, make a muddy puddle for the pigs with cocoa or coffee, bowls, just improvise. Check my DIY farm! 

🎥https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQVPHQB5ivAB8XhXYKzigi3JUy53I0zs/view?usp=sharing

➤ Memory game ‘Who is missing’?

Flip over the flashcards, take away one and ask the children which animal is missing.Train their memory and enhance the visual perception.

➤ Scavenger hunt It is the popular game of treasure hunt where the treasure this time is the farm animals. Draw a matching map with the animals you are using and then hide them. The kids have to search for them and match the animals every time they find one until they have found them all. Here is my map.

Have fun everyone!

Lesson_Plan: Numbers_Revision

Our plan for today!

Subject: Numbers 1-10

Key terms: number,one ,two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Learning objectives: Revise counting one to ten, start identifying the numbers.

Materials and preparation: computer/tablet, printer (optional), tray/plate, salt/flour, lego bricks, white papers, markers, scissors, glue, bucket, newspaper/junk papers, brush, materials for collage[check below on the arts & crafts part]

➤Sensory activities
Time to get messy!💕 We have two activities using these materials: some flour/salt, a tray/plate - any color except white -, markers, an A4 page, a small brush and the numbers’ flashcards.

👉The first one is a pre-writing activity where you need the flashcards for the kids to see and copy the numbers and the tray to write the numbers on with their finger. One card at the time please. About the tray/plate, must not be white because the flour and the salt is also white and they will not be able to see what they write.


👉The second activity is about seeking and matching the numbers. Write, all across an A4 page, all the numbers from 0 to 10 with different color marker. Write down in line the numbers on a second paper also. After, cover the numbers and the page with a layer of flour/salt and give the child a small brush to start brushing the flour/salt up and revealing the numbers. Everytime the child finds a number, has to name it and delete it from the list. Good luck with the excavation!



➤Lego constructions
Get ready to build some towers! Firstly, lay all the flashcards on the floor in order, from 1 to 10, you can ask some help from your child. It’s not an easy task, so do not worry if they can not find the right following number every time. Once the cards are ready, take the lego bucket, start from the beginning, identify the number and put the right amount of bricks to build the tower for each number, like the example. Count every time the bricks to be sure.

 1   2   3  4  5   6   7  8  9  10

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      💛💙💜💛💙💜💚💚💙

           💙💜💛💙💜💚💚💙

                 💜💛💙💜💚💚💙

                       💛💙💜💚💚💙

                             💙💜💚💚💙

                                  💜💚💚💙

                                        💚💚💙

                                              💚💙

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➤ Action game

For this game you will need some old newspapers/magazines, supermarket brochures or any paper you don’t need. Screw the papers into balls with your children and make plenty of them. Find a bucket and place it in a small distance from you. Write down your names and throw by turns equal number of balls in the bucket. Count how many you put in and see who is the winner! 😁

➤ Arts & crafts

✂This is a big project craft about the numbers that is going to keep your children busy all week long. You have to gather eleven different materials to fill in the big numbers. Print big numbers or sketch your own on papers, one for each number. Provide your children with a glue and let them stick the materials you have given between the lines of the number. One different material for each number. Some materials you can use are (*don’t forget to keep an eye on the children and ensure they are safe*): lentil, rice, couscous, salt, cereals, different colored papers, feathers, pom poms, crepe/tissue paper balls, ribbons, buttons, pencils’ shavings  or anything you can think and find in the house that can be glued. In this way you will create different texture card numbers to feel and you can also hang them in the kids’ rooms to practise every day.

➤ Educational online games

💻The following game is about the order of the numbers and the kids have to click on the one missing. It is challenging so you should give it a try!

🎮https://www.splashlearn.com/math-skills/kindergarten-grade/numbers-up-to-10-gk/count-forward-up-to-10

Note: If you like, you can have the flashcards in order next to you so the kids can see the numbers.

💻This game is also enjoyable offering multiple choices on the tasks. You have to put on the ladybug’s dots by counting, matching or ordering. Easy peasy!

🎮https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/ladybird-spots

''That was it! I hope it was a useful project and you had fun. See you soon!''

SM

Lesson_Plan: Numbers 6-10

Our plan for today!

''Hello parents and children,
Let’s continue the weekly program focused on numbers. I am vibing positive energy to you through the lessons and hope you enjoy your time at home!''🌞

Subject: Numbers

Key terms: number, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, fingers

Learning objectives: Revise counting one to ten, get familiar with the shape of five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and start identifying these numbers.

Materials and preparation: computer/tablet, flashcards, playdough, white paper, markers, toy car, generally toys(plastic fruit, teddies, balls, etc.)

➤Introduction

Today we are singing together and counting our fingers. Please follow the link below and watch the video. Let’s count together!😃

🎦Ten little fingers✌

➤Flashcards
Use the rest of the flashcads you have from the first number lesson. Let's practise counting for number six, seven, eight, nine and ten. Ask your children to repeat after you.

➤Fine motor activities
The fine motor activities are the same like the first lesson plan about numbers 1-5:

1. For the first activity you are going to use the flashcards 6-10 and some pom poms. Ask for each card ‘Which number is this? Let’ count!’ and count the figures on the card to find which number it is. Then, ask from your child to put as many pom poms as it is needed according to the number. Repeat for each number.

2. In order to familiarize with the shape of the numbers, you can draw huge numbers with small lines in between so they look like roads. Take a car and drive in the lines like this. 💥It is important for the children to get used to the shape of each number. Be the model for them and with your finger show them how you write the number and ask them to follow the line with their finger after you.

                                                  

3. For the last fine motor activity you need playdough. Take one big number card and try to place with your child the playdough on the number so you create the shape of it. The best option is to make a huge worm and then put it between the lines. Repeat for numbers six to 10.

➤ Educational online games

Ιn the link you can find a great math game about counting and recognising the numbers from 1 to 10. The kids have to click on the birthday cake candles to light them up, count them and find the right number. It is funny, easy to play and a bit challenging to answer. Enjoy!

🎮https://www.abcya.com/games/kindergarten_counting

➤Action game

For this game you will need many toys of any kind like plastic fruits, plastic kitchen tools, teddies, books, etc. Choose ten corners in the house and place the number flashcards on the floor. Ask your children to recognize the numbers one by one and they have to put the corresponding amount of toys on each number(ex. 1 ball on 1, 2 pans on 2, etc.). They have a lot of counting to do! Have fun!

''I hope you liked it! The revision lesson plan is coming soon.''

SM

Lesson_Plan: Numbers 1-5

Our plan for today!

Subject: Numbers 0-5

Key terms: numbers, zero, one, two, three, four, five, ducks

Learning objectives: Count one to five, get familiar with the numbers shape and start identifying the numbers.

Materials and preparation: computer/tablet, printer(optional), scissors, glue, colored papers, beige(or any color for ice-cream cones) cardboard, playdough, markers, toy car, glue, flour/shaving foam

➤Introduction

To start with, you can listen to the famous song 'Five little ducks' which you are going to use for dramatic play later. You can find it here:Five little ducks.
The story is about five ducks that went to the lake with their mom but one by one was going far away until only one left when daddy duck called them and all came back. Numbers and counting up to 5 are used in the song so the children can start to get used to the sounds. You can print or draw the ducks you need-5little ones, mommy & daddy, even a lake- in order to play the story and practise counting. Should be fun!

➤Flashcards
You can easily find online free number flashcards or can create your own, by writing down the numbers in different cardboards cut in small size like the ¼ of an A4 page. It is important to draw for each number the analog of objects in order to count the objects every time they are looking for a number (three balls for number three, four butterflies for number four, etc). Don't forget zero! Let’s practise counting! You parents should the models count one by one with clear voice and encourage the children to repeat the numbers.

➤Fine motor activities

1. For this activity you are going to use the number flashcards and some pom poms. Ask for each card ‘Which number is this? Let’ count!’ and count the figures on the card to find which number it is. Then, ask from your child to put as many pom poms as it is needed according to the number. Repeat for each number.

2. In order to familiarize them with the shape of the numbers, you can draw huge numbers with small lines in between so they look like roads. You can also find them online as number road mats. Take a car/trolley and drive between the lines. It is important for the children to get used to the shape of each number. Be the model for them and with your finger show them how you write the number.

3. Another pre-writing activity you can do is to write them with playdough. ✵You can find the recipe for DIY playdough in the lesson  about primary colors here→ theme_plan:colors1.
Take one at the time number road mat and try to place  the playdough on the number so you make the shape of it. The best option is to make a huge worm and then put it between the lines.

4. Last but not least a sensory tray with shaving foam or flour where the children can experiment with the numbers writing. You can use the flashcards as reference to help them remember the numbers. So simple and exciting the same time.

➤Arts &Crafts
Cut out of cardboard the cones and the numbers till five. Cut out the correct number (15 in total) of ice cream scoops out of different colored paper. The children have to glue the corresponding number of scoops to the ice cream cones ex. one scoop for number 1, two scoops for 2, etc. You can decorate them with glitter glue, stickers or anything you have available.They can take the ice creams in their play kitchen and use them anytime.
                                      

''Enjoy the project. See you again for number 5-10!''
SM